FEATURE STORY
SHOREWOOD
VISION PLAN
2025 4 QUESTIONS 7 COMMITTEES 10 YEARS
1 VISION
Members of Shorewood’s Vision 2025 committees discuss future initiatives. Top, left to right: Rob VandenNoven Sara Schnoor Diane DeWindt-Hall Tim Birkel Leeann Butschlick David Banaszynski Bob Peschel Patrick Linnane Tim Kenney Philip Hung Chris Swartz
We have envisioned Shorewood’s future. NOW, HOW DO WE GET THERE? By Karen de Hartog
Shorewood’s visioning process for 2025 began with three fundamental questions: “Where are we now?” “Where are we going?”and “Where do we want to be?” After many months of focus groups, community meetings and surveys all asking participants to weigh in on these questions, the Village Board in 2014 approved final Vision Plan Statements (page 10) that capture the collective input. At the Board’s direction, Village Manager Chris Swartz and his management team are now hard at work tackling the fourth question in the visioning process: “How do we get there?” (continued on page 10)
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